Talk:Monica Roberts

Latest comment: 3 years ago by -sche in topic Death date

Death

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According to a friend of hers, Monica Roberts passed away on Monday of this week (here's the Facebook post). No other information seems to be available at this time.50.67.80.193 (talk) 21:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

After researching, I found another source that gives more details about the death. The article expands that her death was not the result of a hit-and-run, but a medical emergency. Please see https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/Monica-Roberts-identified-in-Houston-hit-and-run-15634310.php Jurisdicta (talk) 20:51, 10 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Birth name

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(Redacted) This information is available in the Texas Birth Index on ancestry.com. This is probably the same person as Monica Roberts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:A0:2A00:741E:7183:69D8:E541 (talk) 18:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Roberts did not become notable until after her gender transition, so her birth name (deadname) should not be included in the article per Wikipedia policy. Funcrunch (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Ethnicity in the lead sentence

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I removed this and it was restored. Is the subjects ethnicity relevant to their notability per MOS:ETHNICITY? I would leave it out.--Malerooster (talk) 19:40, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

I would argue it is, as Roberts is notable for her advocacy concerning African-American transgender women. Morgan695 (talk) 20:44, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
I agree. Gleeanon 21:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Death date

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Looking at the edit history, I see that like there was initially uncertainty over the cause of death, there were edits changing her date of death back and forth between October 6th and the 5th, so I looked into it, and am noting my findings here for the record. Although a few sources like OutSmart (despite itself being Houston-based!) have October 6th (as of when I'm writing this comment, anyway), and several avoid the uncertainty by just saying "in October", I see that local Houston media KPRC, citing local authorities, has the 5th, as does the New York Times, so I infer the 5th is more likely to be correct. -sche (talk) 03:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)Reply